Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...churches across the country, millions of Americans joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what...
...nailed together swiftly, ending a government crisis of only 16 days, one of the briefest on record. The speed was also due to President Alessandro Pertini, 83. Following the collapse of Cossiga's fragile minority "government of truce" last month, he urgently summoned Cossiga, even though it was Sunday, and asked him to try again to form a government. "The unemployed don't stop worrying on Sunday," explained Pertini, "nor do the Red Brigades stop shooting...
...mysterious? he asks. An expert in privacy law and court procedure and one of Harvard Law's most popular and entertaining lecturers, Miller slid into television after a friend, Nieman Foundation Curator James Thomson, suggested that WCVB use the professor as a guest host on Sunday Open House, one of the station's many public affairs offerings. Those appearances led to his own show. Miller's Court made its debut last fall. At first the audience was minuscule, but soon interest perked, and the show now attracts 10% of the viewers during its Friday night slot...
...tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin had uncomplainingly done his time in the service, just as he now uncomplainingly does his time at the factory, sustained by an unexamined...
Blodgett will rock with the bone-crunching beat of the sport all day Saturday, and the championship will be decided Sunday...